Landscape Ecology of Insects
Kaitlin recently made a Perpetual Notion Machine episode with geographer Dr. Elizabeth Johnson about biomimetics – an emerging field that has intersections with basic biology, the quantification of nature (like ecosystem services), arthropod neural networks, capitalism, and public science funding. Check out their conversation here: https://soundcloud.com/wort-fm/pnm-august-15-2013-biomimetics
Kaitlin recently aired an episode of the Perpetual Notion Machine on WORT FM about monarchs and climate change. It was also about “lab lit,” or science in novels. This was inspired by a December 2012 New York Times article by Katherine Bouton. There’s a website with more info on the genre here. The show …
A big thanks to the Wisconsin Alumni Association Lakeland Chapter for hosting me for a Founders Day Dinner in Minocqua at the lovely Norwoods Supper club. I had the opportunity to talk about some of the work that we’ve been doing on bioenergy crops and the potential role in sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. Wonderful …
See a video made about the Gratton Lab’s research on native bees, land-use change and agricultural management. This video was created and published for UWRightNow, a multimedia project that aims to capture as much about UW–Madison life as possible through videos, stories, and images collected in a 24-hour period. Link to video: http://uwrightnow.wisc.edu/posts/2522
The snow is slowly but surely melting and we are starting to think about the upcoming field season. Here in the Gratton Lab, we do most of our field work in agricultural settings. One crop we work in is corn. For those of you who didn’t grow up on a farm, you might not have …